Falcon 3 Review — TII's STEM-Focused Open-Weight Family (1B–10B + Mamba)

Released December 17, 2024 by the Technology Innovation Institute (Abu Dhabi), Falcon 3 is a five-model open-weight family (1B, 3B, 7B, 10B, plus a Mamba-7B SSM variant) with true Apache 2.0 licensing. The 7B flagship trained on 14 trillion tokens; the 10B was upscaled via layer duplication. MMLU 73.1 and GSM8K 83.0 for the 10B. We review the architecture, Mamba variant, training methodology, benchmarks, and where Falcon 3 lands in the crowded December 2024 open-weight market.